Colin Campbell

As soon as Cal Ripken Jr. found out his mother was missing, he jumped in his car and set out to find her himself. The Orioles' "Iron Man" got a call from his sister, Elly, about 9 p.m. July 24 saying that someone spotted a car bearing Violet Ripken's license plates with a woman tied up in the back seat. The police were asking: Did the Ripkens know where their 74-year-old mother was? "It was the worst feeling you could imagine," Ripken said Friday, drumming his fingers on a tabletop and pausing to avoid breaking down in front of reporters and television cameras gathered at Camden Yards to hear him speak out about his mother's abduction and mysterious...

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